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Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#552
This is stupid like 99% of corporate censorship actions and yet again demonstrating why pointlessly centralized address books (like DNS) are bad (the alternative I have in mind is petnames, before someone thinks I'm referring to some wacky solution).

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#553

Anyone know some good registrars that have made it clear through either lack of action or statement that they're willing to keep providing service to people they find repugnant and only cease service when legally required?

Cloudflare is one of them, though they did deplatform stormfront in a fit of rage once. Otherwise they seem pretty stand-off. For anything critical you may want to consider multiple paths of failure and different registrars in different TLDs.

This was an embarrassing episode for that company. Matthew Prince said as much. He said something like "I did this because Stormfront claimed that we platform them because we are Nazis. It's bad that I can do this." I thought that was an especially bad look for him personally, like, if he has the presence of mind to dislike that, then he should exercise it to not take the actions he says he dislikes. Around the same time, the company also deplatformed Switter, which was in my view going beyond their legal obligations, and was also extremely disappointing.

Disclosure: I worked at Cloudflare at the time and am generally biased in favor of Cloudflare.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#554

We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support…

I'm considering moving my domains to protest this decision.

You are attacking the wrong group of people. Being against Putin doesn't mean being against the Russian people. What happens is you hurt more innocent people.

You are jumping in a bandwagon because it feels good. This isn't a responsible logical action that doesn't achieve anything but hurts the wrong group who you would think we would want on our side.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#555

We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support…

There's a lot of criticism going your way for this, but I support your decision. This ventures down the path of "what difference does it make if I'm the only one making a stand." Apathy is the downfall of the collective.

So be the one who stands alone, because I guarantee that the vast majority of people pointing fingers aren't doing a single damned thing, apart from being an armchair warrior.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#556
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I was surprised by this, until I realized that one of Namecheap's offices is in downtown Kharkiv. Today, the Russian military bombed Kharkiv with cluster munitions [1]. Civilians were killed, possibly including children [2]. Given the severity of the situation, I'm surprised that Namecheap has not opted for more drastic measures- for example, redirecting Russian web traffic. Simply transferring Russian businesses to…

While there are treaties intended to limit the usage of cluster bombs the Russian Federation is not a signatory on any of those. Neither is the United States for that matter.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#557

We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support…

Why don’t you cut off United States citizens while you are at it? The regime that has probably done more damage and caused more instability to the world than any other country. The U.S. uses the entire world as their playground couping any Government that disagrees with them or refuses to bend to their demands and bombing their citizens and civilians. What about the atrocities and war crimes committed in Iraq and Afg…

> Why don’t you cut off United States citizens while you are at it?

Just because they don't cut off the American government, especially Texas, from services, doesn't mean that they can't stand against Russia. This is a blatant false dichotomy. In addition, I 100% blame every tax-payer of Texas for the human rights violations going on there, even those who would call themselves liberals.

Vote with your wallets. Leave.

Re: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

#558
You’re blaming ordinary citizens of Russia for a war they did not choose.

These citizens have very little freedom of speech (because Putin) yet you ask them to speak up.

Would you speak up if you lived in Russia and knowing that you could be abducted in the middle of the night and tortured?

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